1913

Events

• February 9 – A meteor procession was visible along a great circle arc of 6,040 miles across the Americas.

• Astronomer Clarence Chant concludes that the source was a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
• The event is referred to as the "Great Meteor Procession of 1913."

• Physicist Georges Sagnac shows that light propagates at a speed independent of the speed of its source.

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